Every time the gaming world thinks he's disapeared back under his rock, he comes out spouting spinned/fabricated crap about the video games industry. Truth of the matter is - parents are responsable for their children. No one else is.
I can't help but think Thompson's just trying to keep him self in the limelight. The amount of stuff thats availble to kids on the internet is alot more disturbing then than gunning down a grunt.
Maybe i shoudn't have said that. He'll be starting a crusade to shut the internet down next.
Anyone else think the Thompson household is probably akin to the Flanders?

Wrong, we all are responsible of the children education, they are the future of the world therefore a very important part of our society, so if you care about the handicap people, and not buying furr to protect some animals from extintion, we all should take part in helping parents to rise theyr children.
If we show our opinion against this hyperviolent games, music, and other kind of art which use the nonsense violence to fill the people morbid curiosity.

The thing is that this violent expressions are widely exposed in the media, it is almost imposible for parents who also have a job to control everything theyr childrens watch on tv or listen on the radio, or play in a neighbour house. It is unrealistic to think that the rating system is enough to prevent our childrens from watching or hearing violence. Thats the reality and we have to deal with it. Till there is a good system of ditribution which asure us that childrens wont be reached by that information, we have to do a sacrifice for the sake of our childrens , our and theyr future. It is called social concsience , and it is above individual short term interests.

If we dont help parents to rise theyr kids, then weŽll se more violence in the near future, less enviroment concsience, at theyr age they are highly influenciated by the world that surround them.

I think Halo 3 is violent, but not enough to be banned, there are limits, and I think GTA exceed them.

Actually the whole public school thing is a fairly new idea and one that is not held in high regard by a decent percentage of the population. Many believe that private schooling is best while other still thing an organized school system with little flexibility to adjust to individual students needs is more stifling than anything and choose to take on the huge responsibility of educating their children themselves.



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I do, i pay taxes, they go to schools. I dont have kids in schools, yet I pay for them. Those schools also provide food for kids whos families cant afford it. Also my taxes go to helping give money to those in need to help properly raise their kids. Not to mention child protective services an organization whose whole purpose is to ensure that children are raised by good parents.



then what happens? Then I know your opinion and respect it. Mine is different. If I was of the opinion that kicking you in the groin when ever you leave the predicate of a sentence off would make you a batter person I still wouldn't be aloud to inflict that on you. Good intentions or no.



Don't own a radio/tv/video games and don't let your kids hang out with people who do. Sure it's harder, but it's an option. If your so noble with your concern then you've got to suck it up and remove those dangers from your home.



Ok so you are willing to sacrifice my right to play and watch and listen to what I want so you don't have to sacrifice judge judy? Get bent.



Wait, more violence equals less environmental conciousness? Jack, is that you? Seriously, that's grasping at straws.



Then don't let your kids play GTA. It's easy, there are parental controls on all the new systems. Enable them and walk away. Easy as that.

Here's a fun story, I was born in texas, went to rodeos and monster truck events, have known hunters my whole life. I've played video games as long as I can remember and when MK came out I was only like 12. I played it constantly, loved it. I am now not insane. Never been in a fight in my life. Never struck another human being in anger and am very environmentally conscious, if a bit lazy. How did this happen? Simple, My parents taught me to be a good person and to care about others. They led through example. If more people would just take the 5 minutes a day to read their kids the lorax from time to time the world would be a better place. Taking freedom of speech away from anyone does not make anything better. If you let the government tell people what kinds of art they can and cant make then you open up a whole can of worms. Between the patriot act and Bushs new power to become king of the USA in case of a disaster mixed with out new RFIDs i really dont think the government needs any more control over the people it's supposed to serve.
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OK, let's deal with the short term at least: why do official US statistics show that youth-related violence is at a 30 year low, which is surprisingly about the same length of time videogames have been available to the general public? Surely, if all these videogames are having an adverse affect then we should be seeing a rise in youth-related violence, shouldn't we?

Whilst such horrendous acts, as committed at Columbine and Virginia Tech, should be roundly condemned, the facts would suggest that the opposite is true with regard to all the alarmist claims made against videogames; these occassional "blips" are not the norm, they are extreme examples of troubled youths who live in an environment where playing videogames is commonplace, they are not the causitive effect resulting in readily obtained firearms being used to maim and kill.

That's the biggest load of b******s i've ever read. Jack is that you?
It reads like the rant of someone trying to excuse themselves out of parental obligation.
I agree that stores shouldn't be selling mature rated games to underage kids. But kids are clever enough to get round these things. So it's up to the parents to keep on top of things.